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Does Your Rabbi Know You´re Here?: The Story of English Football´s Forgotten Tribe
Anthony Clavane
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Description for Does Your Rabbi Know You´re Here?: The Story of English Football´s Forgotten Tribe
Paperback.
Ever since the children of penniless immigrants caught the train from Whitechapel to White Hart Lane - to be greeted with the refrain: 'Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?' - this forgotten tribe have helped to shape the Beautiful Game. In telling the fascinating lives of these largely unsung trailblazers, Clavane uncovers a hidden history of Jewish involvement in English football. From Louis Bookman, the first Jew to play in England's top division, to the pugnacious winger Mark Lazarus, whose last-gasp goal won the 1967 League Cup for QPR, to shady figures like One-Armed Lou, a ticket tout who never ... Read more
Ever since the children of penniless immigrants caught the train from Whitechapel to White Hart Lane - to be greeted with the refrain: 'Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?' - this forgotten tribe have helped to shape the Beautiful Game. In telling the fascinating lives of these largely unsung trailblazers, Clavane uncovers a hidden history of Jewish involvement in English football. From Louis Bookman, the first Jew to play in England's top division, to the pugnacious winger Mark Lazarus, whose last-gasp goal won the 1967 League Cup for QPR, to shady figures like One-Armed Lou, a ticket tout who never ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857388148
SKU
V9780857388148
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Ref
99-10
About Anthony Clavane
Anthony Clavane was born in Leeds in 1960. He started life as a history teacher and is now chief sports writer for the Sunday Mirror. He has won Press Gazette Feature Writer of the Year and BT Regional Sportswriter of the Year awards. His previous book Promised Land: A Northern Love Story was named both Football Book of the Year ... Read more
Reviews for Does Your Rabbi Know You´re Here?: The Story of English Football´s Forgotten Tribe
'[A] thought-provoking, absorbing exploration of what he terms 'English football's forgotten tribe'' Independent on Sunday.
Independent on Sunday
'A splendid, warmly written slice of untold social history' New Statesman.
New Statesman
'Enthralling' Patrick Barclay.
Patrick Barclay
Independent on Sunday
'A splendid, warmly written slice of untold social history' New Statesman.
New Statesman
'Enthralling' Patrick Barclay.
Patrick Barclay